Men stowed away on Istanbul to Odessa ferry and are stuck at sea while both Turkey and Ukraine refuse to take themTwelve migrants, apparently from North Africa, have been sailing to and fro between Istanbul and Odessa on a Danish passenger ferry for the last seven weeks, locked in four cabins with no country willing to take them. According to the...

Russia carried out an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test in the country’s remote northwest ahead of a huge war game scheduled to begin later this week that will involve thousands of troops near the Belarus western border with NATO countries. The launch of the RS-24 Yars missile, a weapon with a reported range of 7,500 miles and...

A Polish citizen holding a senior managerial position at the Ukrainian state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia was detained by the country’s security service (SBU) when allegedly accepting a USD 70,000 bribe on Wednesday, according to reports. …read more Source: Polskie...

Judges in the Russian-controlled Crimea have sentenced Tatar representative Akhtem Chiygoz to eight years in a labor camp for “organizing a mass riot.” Chiygoz had worked for a Tatar assembly which Moscow later outlawed. …read more Source: Deutsche...

The expatriated opposition polititian’s return to Ukraine has placed the fragile political stability under severe pressure. His conflict with President Poroshenko is escalating. …read more Source: Deutsche...

The British government wants a “deep security partnership” with the European Union after Brexit that is closer than with any other country outside the bloc. The U.K. lays out its position on future security cooperation with the EU in a paper to be published Tuesday in which it emphasizes the mutual benefits of working across the Brexit divide....

The expatriated opposition polititian’s return to Ukraine has placed the fragile political stability under severe pressure. His conflict with President Poroshenko is escalating. …read more Source: Deutsche...

Twenty-five military from the Land Forces of Bulgaria are in Ukraine to take part in the Rapid Trident 2017 NATO exercise. Other countries to have joined the exercise include USA, Canada, Estonia, Italy Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Turkey and Great Britain. The exercise aims to achieve full interoperability between the units...